Goodbye, church... Hello, Wellness Industrial Complex! : It's Been a Minute
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1263527059/its-been-a-minute-wellness-spirituality-religion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why is the federal government still killing coyotes? : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1239050327/usda-funding-wildlife-coyote-culling?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why 'Severance' is 'not that far off' from reality, according to one scientist : Short Wave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1239050333/brain-severance-apple-tv-neuroscience-consciousness?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This is kinda cool as a concept. (It is a bit weird that the only documentation on how to install this still somewhat limited too expects you to run a k8s cluster)
mastodon.social/@mrchrisadams/…
WOW - The French government announced a new OSS project simply called Docs:“A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentationZendisorm that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline."
It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js).
LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the
"Liberté, Egalité, CRDTé”
Dad joke?
I think it does. Link below:
V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)
Docs
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.docs.numerique.gouv.fr
Phones glow in night at silent anti-government protest in Serbia
Thousands of protesters fell silent in Serbia's capital on Saturday, to honour the victims of a concrete canopy collapse which has sparked significant unrest...YouTube
The Pandemic Never Ended.
"5 years later, it is sad to think about what could have been ... For a moment, there was a sense that we cared about the vulnerable. There was a moment of solidarity, somewhere within the trauma."
"Those of us who don’t have the privilege of ignoring Covid know about the numerous studies that show the kind of damage Covid can cause on multiple organ systems. The young people having heart attacks. That people aren’t making connections between Covid infections and worsening immune systems feels unfathomable to those of us suffering from long Covid. People ask, naïvely, “Why do I keep getting sick?” Somehow, they don’t make the connection. Denial is a strong drug."
Source: archive.md/MDXGt
Rebecca Crumpler. 1831-1895
Rebecca Lee Crumpler MD..Physician...
She was the first Black Woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
💙 🎓
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Jodie Miners – Navigating Cybersecurity for Small Business - Data Revolution Podcast
In this episode of the Data Revolution podcast, I speak with Jodie Miners about the importance of cybersecurity for small businesses, focusing on the SMB 1001:2025 standard.Kate Carruthers (My WordPress)
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
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Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
Photo via the British Library If you’re a British history buff, next month is an ideal time to be in London for the British Library’s “once-in-a-generation exhibition” Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms:Josh Jones (Openculture.com)
BBC: “Can you see any serious signs that Vladimir Putin is actually willing to enter into serious negotiations?”
President of Finland: “I think the chances are abysmal. I don’t think Putin wants a ceasefire. Putin doesn't want peace. His original aim was...basically to have #Ukraine ceasing to exist. He hasn't changed his aim. And this is what all of us around the table have to understand." Alex Stubb President of Finland 🇫🇮
#eu #europe #EuropeanUnion #UK #nato #usa #potus
Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after attackers gained unauthorized access to a maintainer account, in the latest open-source supply-chain attack to roil the Internet.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets
tj-actions/changed-files, corrupted to run credential-stealing memory scraper.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US
French Socialist MEP says Washington's embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.
By Joe Stanley-Smith
💬 “We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty.’”
- French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann
politico.eu/article/statue-of-…
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US
French Socialist MEP says Washington’s embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.Joe Stanley-Smith (POLITICO)
What to know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54206/el-salvador-mega-prison-cecot?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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NEW: Why trying to understand what the Trump admin did in response to the TRO matters.
Planes were in the air. They kept going.
What did they do, and why? I strongly believe that it matters for our future that we work to understand what is happening at times like this.
Tonight, at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-a…
Trying to understand the Trump admin's TRO response matters
Planes were in the air. They kept going. What did they do, and why? I strongly believe that it matters for our future that we work to understand what is happening.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
UPDATE: Chief Judge Boasberg schedules a hearing for 4p today on the government’s notice and the plaintiffs’ response, notes that the gov’t “shall be prepared to provide answers to the questions raised by Plaintiffs on page 6 of their Response.”
Here are those questions:
17 March 1900 | A Jewish man, Raphael Ganon, was born in Izmir. He lived in France.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 October 1942 in a transport of 210 Jews deported from Drancy. He did not survive.
If we make sure this is what happens every time a politician tries to throw trans people under the bus, there’s hope for all of us.
They want to eliminate due process for deportation and this is their test case.
Kind of like how they wanna arrest protestors without due process,
and fire government employees without due process,
and indict people without due process,
and seize assets without due process.
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The media is underreporting the protests that are going on in America. It looks like Schumer is also getting protested.
58-second video
youtube.com/shorts/ApuSA7zlf-0
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The Amiga No One Wanted
hackaday.com/2025/03/16/the-am…
The Amiga No One Wanted
The Amiga has a lot of fans, and rightly so. The machine broke a lot of ground. However, according to [Dave Farquhar], one of the most popular models today — the Amiga 600 — was reviled…Hackaday
I really don't know how to keep saying this so cis people understand.
The Nazis in 1933 came for trans people. They burned our libraries to the ground. They raided and bombed our hospitals. They declared our existence illegal. And then they put us in concentration camps and gassed us.
The Nazis in 2025 came for trans people. They're burning our books. They're raiding and bombing our hospitals. They're declaring our existence illegal. And they're building concentration camps.
There's no fucking nuance here. There's no metaphor to be found. There's no allegory. There's no need to draw "similarities" between the Nazis then and the Nazis now, because it's the same people doing the same shit for the same reasons. It's not "similar". It's the same fucking thing.
And if you can't see that, if you've had blinders on for the last 92+ years, I just don't know how to fucking help you with that. If you think the Nazi attacks on trans people are somehow "recent", blame a Nazi, because Nazis are the reason you think that.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instit…
It's blowing up slowly
youtube.com/shorts/Ya4YZV0lJc0
Flight of the Conchords self-titled debut album goes gold
Shared February 6, 2025 by Flight of the Conchords socials announcing the US gold certification and repressing of their 2008 self-titled debut album.YouTube
@FediTips I'm find repetitive identical posts from different accounts (?) like the ones below. There are 10 or more of them. Astronomy, climate change, and science related are big topics. They post within minutes of each other, bombarding my timeline.
I don't particularly want to block the hashtags. Blocking each account is nuts.
Do you have a suggestion how to get rid of these spammer pests?
Thanks!
Hmm... that does look like someone has connected some bot accounts to an LLM spam generator 😞
I tried to look up those posts but couldn't find them, are they still there?
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"So far, America’s leading universities have remained virtually silent in the face of this authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education. That must change. Harvard must stand up, speak out, and lead a public defense of our freedom to speak and study freely."
thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/…
#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #USConstitution #Rights #HumanRights #Education #University #Harvard #Columbia #Trump #Fascism #Authoritarianism #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.www.thecrimson.com
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It's obviously more important than ever that Canada diversify from the US. What better place to start than with the EU? We must forge tighter trading ties with the European Union and its individual member countries, and despite the UK government's apparent indifference to our plight with the UK as well.
I expect more from France and the UK, given their historical ties to colonial Canada and Canada's unwavering support for them in their times of need.
portal.europeanmovement.eu/eur…
Do you want a European Movement Canada?
Do you want to have a stake in strengthening Canada-EU relations? In the face of Trump's increasing isolationism and tariffs on allies, protecting our shared values is paramount. Sign up here to get involved.European Movement International
Awww, they are calling Pee Pee #TimbitTrump on #Twitter now, and it's trending high.
#Canada #Politics #Trump #CanPol #PierrePoilievre
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![Q: Can I just ask you about the tactic here? Because the choice that you made to vote with the Republicans, isn’t that an argument to get rid of the filibuster? You wanted to keep it when you were in the majority, but if you’re not going to use it in the minority, then what’s the point of it?
A (Schumer): The point here, again, I’ll repeat what I said, would be how devastating a shutdown would be.
Q: But I’m asking about the use of the filibuster.
A: The bottom line is if the filibuster would have been used and the government shut down, the devastation would be terrible. You see, we’ve had government shutdowns before, but never against such nihilists, such anti-government fanatics as Trump, DOGE, Musk. They’ve given us a playbook, by the way. [Russell] Vought has already has written what he wants to shut down if he got a shutdown. Trump wanted a shutdown. Musk wanted a shutdown. Ask yourself why.](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/252266 "Q: Can I just ask you about the tactic here? Because the choice that you made to vote with the Republicans, isn’t that an argument to get rid of the filibuster? You wanted to keep it when you were in the majority, but if you’re not going to use it in the minority, then what’s the point of it?
A (Schumer): The point here, again, I’ll repeat what I said, would be how devastating a shutdown would be.
Q: But I’m asking about the use of the filibuster.
A: The bottom line is if the filibuster would have been used and the government shut down, the devastation would be terrible. You see, we’ve had government shutdowns before, but never against such nihilists, such anti-government fanatics as Trump, DOGE, Musk. They’ve given us a playbook, by the way. [Russell] Vought has already has written what he wants to shut down if he got a shutdown. Trump wanted a shutdown. Musk wanted a shutdown. Ask yourself why.")
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregio…
Ms Ranjani Srinivasan was doing a PhD in urban planning at Columbia and she's reportedly a Fulbright scholar. I hope a colleague in urban planning will realize the obvious win-win opportunity here and make her an offer in a Canadian university.
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.Luis Ferré-Sadurní (The New York Times)
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